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Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885)
Translated by Henry A. Ruger & Clara E. Bussenius (1913)
Originally published in New York by Teachers College, Columbia University.
Preface
Chapter 1. Our Knowledge Concerning Memory
Chapter 2. The Possibility of Enlarging Our Knowledge of Memory
Chapter 3. The Method of Investigation
Chapter 4. The Utility of the Averages Obtained
Chapter 5. Rapidity of Leraning Series of Syllables as a Function of Their Length
Chapter 6. Retention as a Function of the Number of Repetitions
Chapter 7. Retention and Obliviscence as a Function of the Time
Chapter 8. Retention as a Function of Repeated Learning
Chapter 9. Retention as a Function of the Order of Succession of the Members of the Series